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Antonyms for shunned
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : shuhn |
| Phonetic Transcription : ʃʌn |
Definition of shunned
Origin :- Old English scunian "to shun, avoid; abhor; desist, abstain; to hide, seek safety by concealment," of uncertain origin; not found in any other language. Perhaps ultimately from PIE root *skeu- "to cover, to hide." Related: Shunned; shunning. A shun-pike (American English, 1911) was a road constructed to avoid tolls.
- verb avoid, ignore
- In June the florist's shop is a poor place, sedulously to be shunned.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- Hannah, as she moves up and down, is shunned as a person infected.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- To keep faith with John and Milly, should I have shunned him?
- Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
- He was puzzled, for people, while they shunned him, did not appear uncivil.
- Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- His manner to Vargrave was distant; he shunned all tete-a-tetes with his wife.
- Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- He had shunned her presence from the first: and she had grown now to shun him.
- Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
- It made him morose and gloomy, a man of one idea, to be shunned.
- Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
- Blatherwick's hour was on its way, slow-coming, but no longer to be shunned.
- Extract from : « Salted With Fire » by George MacDonald
- I shunned the society of my former companions of the same age.
- Extract from : « Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Complete » by Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre
- He shunned the long walks which he had been wont to take before his illness.
- Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola
Synonyms for shunned
- bilk
- cold-shoulder
- cut
- decline
- despise
- disdain
- ditch
- dodge
- double
- duck
- elude
- escape
- eschew
- evade
- get around
- give a wide berth
- give the runaround
- have no part of
- have nothing to do with
- hide out
- keep away from
- keep clear of
- neglect
- palm off
- pass up
- refuse
- reject
- scorn
- shake
- shake off
- shy
- snub
- stall
- stand aloof from
- stay shy of
- steer clear of
- turn back on
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